Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [verb] only [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The expenditure base defined above includes wealth transferred , but it has sometimes been argued that the base should include only consumption , which would be equivalent to entering only receipts net of transfers on the left-hand side of ( 9–2 ) , as one would if one treated the dynasty as an integrated unit . |
| 2 | The Boat Club must know only lunatics 'd risk it . |
| 3 | For ages five to 11 , the tests normally cost £24.50 , but SHE readers will pay only £20 . |
| 4 | This was specified because such descriptions might reflect only recruitment of previous knowledge about the junction . |
| 5 | Only long cloaks blowing , up on top of the young dunes , a gaze of strange cold eyes , a flash of spear-points — then the rain drove across , and Ruth could see only night . |
| 6 | Actually , they hold around 70% and under the plan could keep only 43% . |
| 7 | As Lord Hill replied to an outraged Lord Derby , whose TWW had ‘ stood on its record ’ and been brusquely dismissed , newcomers such as Harlech could offer only promises , ‘ but if promise is never to be preferred to performance , then every television company will go on for ever ’ ( Sendall , 1983 , p. 359 ) . |
| 8 | If one imagines a machine that can travel from junction to junction almost instantaneously , finding a path to the exit would take only seconds . |
| 9 | He was talking about branching out into the ship-in-a-bottle business because Jonathon will make only ships . |
| 10 | He confirmed that the Scottish Office money could cover only cash flow difficulties from the oil funds — not the producers . |
| 11 | The head of the voting commission for northern Bosnia , for example , said the Serbs could keep only 20% of Bosnia . |
| 12 | Successive NFER analysis demonstrated that the most effective selection process could select only 90% of children adequately — 10% would be misplaced . |
| 13 | If not in priority need , particularly if considered for the purposes of the Act to have become ‘ intentionally homeless ’ , persons may receive only advice and ‘ appropriate assistance ’ , leaving much to an authority 's discretion . |
| 14 | Mies saw no intended musical difference and therefore suggested that editors should use only dots . |
| 15 | Even under the old Labour scheme somebody on £130 a week would pay £26 in national insurance — employers and employees contributions combined — whereas under the Conservative proposals somebody on the same earnings would pay only £19.24 . |
| 16 | In Social Security Appeal Tribunals , the claimant will receive only compensation for loss of earnings ( if any ) and travelling expenses . |
| 17 | On the one hand , suppliers will deliver only items that are explicitly requested by the stores , and on the other they will be privy to market data and forecasts , so that they can plan their manufacturing activities accordingly . |
| 18 | The new machines will cost only £50 more than current single-speed VHS models and in the long-play mode give up to eight hours ' playing time , instead of the normal maximum of four hours . |
| 19 | Larne and other Northern Ireland ports can seek only 50pc assistance for roll-on/roll-off facilities . |
| 20 | The student may nurse only patients with ingrowing toe nails or hallux valgus . |
| 21 | Germany has decided that 90% of the costs of cleaning sites in the eastern states should be split between state and federal governments ; the new owner should carry only 10% of the costs . |
| 22 | England in 1920 , it testified to a similar recognition by him that the amateur ideal in the arts , however admirable in the abstract , and however rich its achievements under earlier structures of society , under the conditions of mass democracy could mean only amateurishness in technique , and thin-skinned insolence in debate . |
| 23 | When I spoke to him that Saturday evening he said he had me in mind but the paper could pay only $15 per week . |
| 24 | According to UBS Phillips & Drew , building societies survived the downturn in the housing market better than expected in 1992 ; the brokers forecast that falls in pre-tax profits will average only 7% . |
| 25 | This would have been so easy had they dug narrow trenches , the practice of the past , as this method can produce only scraps of unrelated evidence . |
| 26 | Then a pack of cards , and backgammon , Trivial Pursuit and Monopoly because she was sure the cottage would have only Snakes and Ladders and jigsaws with several pieces missing . |
| 27 | An advisory committee had voiced doubts about L* 's management and cost — likely to be more than $700m , of which the SSC would pay only $250m . |
| 28 | Although Simmons indicates that such an approach may encompass only part of the traditions of study in geography , it would allow man 's impact on individual taxa and ecosystems , on biotic resources their conservation and protection ( Simmons , 1980 , p. 148 ) |
| 29 | Half a century before , it is true , H. G. Wells and Havelock Ellis had proclaimed that socialism would require the extermination of the unfit by the state ; and soon after , Bernard Shaw had urged scientists to devise painless methods of killing , since the new society would tolerate only workers , and the doctrine of the sanctity of human life , like all doctrines of sanctity , was antiquated claptrap . |
| 30 | She inspected the rooms and found them perfectly tolerable and assured Wilson the ladies would require only coffee in the morning and would otherwise dine elsewhere . |